"Jianghu Fundraising Order! 》

In the anticipation of many insiders, "Oriental Daily" finally published this year's fundraising order on the front page.

Although last year's target movie "Jurassic Park" has not yet been released, investors who have watched the film firmly believe that this Hong Kong-made sci-fi masterpiece is no less sensational at the global box office than "Terminator 2" the year before last!

For this Jianghu fund-raising order, almost all Hong Kong and Taiwan producers are red-eyed, because this Jianghu fund-raising order was rated as the most reliable in history!

Title: "True Lies".

Director: James Cameron.

Screenwriter: Chen Ping'an.

Producer: Anne Hurd.

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zhong Chuhong.

Cost: $100 million.

Amount raised: $20 million.

The report of "Oriental Daily" details the friendship between Chen Ping'an, Cameron, Anne Heard and Arnold, and refers to the four as the Iron Four Horns, who single-handedly created the epoch-making "Terminator" duo, and now they have teamed up to launch "True Lies".

The director is not Chen Ping'an, which makes Hong Kong and Taiwan producers feel a little regretful, but what level of director Cameron is, no one in the circle does not know. What's more, the protagonist is still the popular Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the heroine is the pride of the Hong Kong entertainment industry and the sexy goddess Zhong Chuhong, known as Marilyn Monroe in the East, isn't such a movie worth looking forward to?

As for the cost of making a zuò of 100 million dollars...... With the global box office of "Terminator 2" hitting 500 million, Hollywood has entered the era of blockbusters, and Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers have long adapted to this kind of Hollywood blockbuster that often exceeds 100 million.

Don't think too much about it. Film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan have called Dark Horse International, and the investment amount of 1 million has been collected as soon as possible. Just waiting to share the feast of this Jianghu fundraising order.

If Chen Ping'an's fund-raising order every year in the future can be as reliable as this year. It's good to be so reassuring.

"Oriental Daily" has been stained with the light of Dark Horse International's annual fund-raising order, and some third-rate tabloids are not far behind. In addition to reprinting and commenting, it has begun to report on "Jurassic Park", which is scheduled to be released worldwide this summer.

Of course, they will definitely not give free publicity to Dark Horse International, and the purpose of reporting this is to create a news topic - Taiwan bans Chen Ping'an.

A Hong Kong-made sci-fi masterpiece that was released worldwide, but was rejected by Taiwan, should this be regarded as the high vision of the Taiwan authorities, or the misfortune of Taiwanese audiences?

In order to attract attention, these newspapers have also put a lot of effort into it. A reporter was specially dispatched to Taiwan to cover the reactions of the Taiwanese audience. And it was published in the newspapers.

The vast majority of the audience interviewed expressed anger at the Taiwan authorities' ban on Chen Ping'an, believing it to be a step backwards. Many qualified Taiwanese viewers told the reporter that after the release of "Jurassic Park", they will fly to Hong Kong to watch.

Lianhai Pictures took the opportunity to contact its peers to protest against the Taiwan authorities' brutal interference and unreasonable blockade, and even called on citizens to march on the streets to demand an explanation from the authorities.

Chen Ping'an heard about the movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the phone.

Since the publication of this year's Jianghu fund-raising order, Chen Ping'an has received a large number of phone calls, all of which revolve around this Jianghu fund-raising order.

That's the norm for studio bosses. Every time he came out, someone came to him and said that he wanted to ensure that he had a place. This year, he also received calls from other people, such as Wang Guxian, Zhang Min, Zhou Haimei, Li Jiaxin, Zhou Huimin and others, who complained to him on the phone. complained that he was too good to Zhong Chuhong.

Complaining is not the goal, the real purpose is that they also want to cooperate with international superstars like Zhong Chuhong. starred in a blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions.

When he received these calls, Zhong Chuhong was almost by Chen Ping'an's side. Listening to the complaints on the phone, Zhong Chuhong smiled like a flower and was in a beautiful mood.

Chen Ping'an's energy is not in this area. Arnold is doing a bodybuilding competition; Cameron is enriching the script. At the same time, he cooperated with Anne Heard to select the actors; It will take some time for the funds from Hong Kong to arrive, and it is estimated that "True Lies" will not be launched until the second half of the year.

His mind is now on "Crazy Flowers of the End", and the first thing is to interview with Gina Davis to determine the other heroine of "Crazy Flowers of the End".

As Anne Heard worried, Gina Davis has a lot of recent film appointments and is picking out a script. Although she was quite satisfied with the script of "Crazy Flowers at the End" after reading it, that role was rejected by Merrill Streep, and her agent Jian Yì considered it carefully, and she was also a little uncomfortable in her heart.

However, Chen Ping'an is not as unknown as he was back then, the achievements of the two Oscars, and the successive winning of two actors, still made Gina Davis decide to meet with him to see how he convinces himself.

The two of them meet in a high-end café, the environment is elegant and private.

Chen Ping'an came by himself, and so did Gina Davis, so did he not let his agent follow.

After meeting, the two were not estranged, and at the cocktail party after the Oscars this year, the two had a brief conversation and knew each other.

After a brief opening remarks, Chen Ping'an went straight to the point: "Gina, have you read the book of "Crazy Flowers of the End", are you interested?" ”

"As far as I know, your first choice is Meryl Streep, right?"

"That's right. At first, I was indeed looking for her, but unfortunately she finally decided to take over the filming of "Flying Over Immortality". The reason why she was chosen, acting skills are not the main thing, to be honest, I don't think your acting skills are worse than hers, but she has won the Oscar for Best Actress. ”

Gina Davis didn't think that Chen Ping'an would say such a thing, although she was a little dissatisfied in her heart, she had to admit that Chen Ping'an's approach was in the best interest of the producer. Taking a sip of coffee is not an actor, and continues to wait for Chen Ping'an's Guan to say.

If he only wants to convince himself of the Oscar for Best Actress, then he can only say sorry.

Chen Ping'an waited for her to finish her coffee and continued: "You have read the script, you should know that this is a purely feminist movie. In Hollywood, there are very few films of this genre, and as a director and an investor, I have to fully consider the risks involved. ”

"So you need to make up for it with big stars. And the other actress, Zhong, is obviously not famous enough to support the whole movie, so you think of Meryl, right? ”

"And no one said you were very understanding?"

"Thank you. May I ask, you seem to have a very good impression of oriental actors. ”

"Because I'm an Oriental. Also, it's not just me, Tom also has a crush on Orientals. ”

Gina Davis looked slightly stunned, and after a moment said with a smile: "You are a very good lobbyist. ”

"I'm just stating the facts."

"Can I think about it for a few days?"

"Of course."

This is the end of the meeting between the two, Gina Davis left first, and Chen Ping'an sat in the café, sipping coffee slowly.

If there were no surprises, he could conclude that Gina Davis would not refuse. The reason why I said that I had to think about it for a few days was mostly out of respect for the agent and the face of the actor himself.

Gina, who left the café, was not in a hurry to leave, and sat in the car and dialed the agent's number. On the phone, she told her agent that she was going to take over the filming of Dark Horse International's "Crazy Flower of the End".

"Why? Does Dongfang Chen know magic? How long have you only been seeing him, and that's your promise? ”

"Because Tom ......"

Chen Ping'an didn't replace Tom Cruise for no reason. Think of "Rain Man" filmed the year before last, when Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were approached and wanted them to co-star.

As a result, Tom Cruise refused, and Chen Ping'an decided to replace him with Brad Pitt.

It is this change that Brad Pitt, who has been wandering in the second and third lines of Hollywood, won last year's Oscar nomination for Best Actor with "Rain Man", and successfully became a first-line star.

also changed from the previous positioning of mainly playing the villain, broadened the drama path, and began to shoot some positive characters with ruffian nature that are not bad.

This time, "Crazy Flowers of the End" is very similar to "Rain Man" that year. Merry Splitt also rejected "Crazy Flowers at the End", and Chen Ping'an found Gina Davis.

Just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year with "Unexpected Traveler", and Gina Davis was not only happy, but also had a little ambition in her heart. How many actors don't want to be the annual actor and actress? And Chen Ping'an has just won two actors in the past two years.

Compared with Zhong Chuhong, shouldn't the probability of her winning the award be higher?

A few days later, Gina Davis signed a contract with the crew and officially agreed to star in "Crazy Flowers at the End".

After Chen Ping'an had lunch with the president of Ford in the name of a Ford shareholder, Ford offered to sponsor the filming of the film and provided five Thunderbird cars from 66 or 6 years as filming vehicles.

At the same time, Chen Ping'an urgently recruited Luo Lixian and his stunt team to join the crew. As a road adventure movie, it is natural that there is no shortage of exciting scenes such as drag racing.

At the beginning of June, "Crazy Flower of the End", which was ready to invest 15 million, was officially launched.

When Chen Ping'an rushed to Arkansas, located in the western United States, with the crew and started filming "Crazy Flowers of the End", Li Jiaxin flew to the United States. She came to promote "Jurassic Park", the United States is the second stop, and the first stop is naturally Hong Kong.

After the publicity in the United States is over, she will also go to various countries in the Americas to promote according to the arrangement of the distribution company. There are many people who participated in the global simultaneous release promotion activities, as well as two staff members from the Dark Horse Special Effects Studio.

Although Chen Ping'an did not participate in this propaganda work, he attached great importance to it. Hong Kong films with an investment of 50 million US dollars, if they want to achieve higher investment returns, they must hope for the global box office market.

At the same time, on the surface, Li Jiaxin is mainly used to promote him, but in fact, it is a film played during the propaganda in various places, and the dark horse special effects studio is rotated.

Before coming to the United States, Chen Ping'an had already communicated with Xu Ke, and the establishment of the Dark Horse Special Effects Company was officially put on the agenda, and the first thing to do now was to expand the recruitment! (To be continued......) R1292